22,142 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.7% since 2020)
1,238 square miles of land · 18 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
8 active community water systems list Clarke County in the area they serve, reporting 35,610 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| JACKSON WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000256 | 11,715 served |
| THOMASVILLE WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000262 | 6,897 served |
| GROVE HILL WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000255 | 5,280 served |
| OLD LINE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · AL0000257 | 5,145 served |
| COFFEEVILLE UTILIIES BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000252 | 2,730 served |
| MID-CENTRAL WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001513 | 2,325 served |
| NORTH CLARKE WATER AUTHORITY buys groundwater · local government · AL0001771 | 984 served |
| FULTON, UTILITIES BOARD OF THE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000254 | 534 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 115 people were held in Clarke County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 842 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 91.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
2 school districts have their office in Clarke County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $36.5 million — $31.2 million to run schools, about $14,384 per student, plus $3.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.1 million local (mostly property tax), $19.3 million state, $11.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $24.5 million.
Spent $16.6 million — $14.9 million to run schools, about $14,125 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.2 million local (mostly property tax), $10.1 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Clarke County about $13.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
155 bridges in Clarke County: 108 in good condition, 47 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.6 million of work in Clarke County in fiscal 2025, about $244 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Alabama are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Clarke County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Clarke County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Monroe County (27 mi) · Washington County (30 mi) · Choctaw County (33 mi) · Wilcox County (37 mi) · Marengo County (39 mi) · Wayne County, MS (51 mi).